leadore

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[–] leadore@lemmy.world 9 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

How much is a "packet"? edit: never mind, I found several conflicting answers in the other comments, no need to add even more and add to the confusion.

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yes, he was completely submissive to Musk and his little X brat! I kind of marveled at how he sat there and took shit from them in that office and I knew Musk owned him. I don't really think the Epstein thing is that important. Everyone already knows about it, and his followers won't believe it or won't care. If a crime, I think it would have to be something bigger. Like on the level of the conspiracy theory that Musk was able to rig the election in some states (though I'm not sure even that would be prosecuted). But then Musk would also be incriminated.

I think it's more likely that there was a huge sum of money trump was going to get paid, that Musk had control of until the investigations into Musk and his companies got shut down and all the billions in government contracts to his companies were signed and delivered, then once trump finally got paid for the services rendered, he doesn't need Musk anymore, so he's out.

The thing that was never considered by a lot of people who helped get trump in power for their own gain, both the first time and this time, is that once he's in there he has the full power of the government to go after you if you don't toe the line. He can ruin them financially and even put them in prison now. They forgot, trump never honors a deal. He'll screw you over the minute you no longer have something he needs or can no longer threaten him.

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Yes, good point. He was in it for both of those things and probably a bunch of other less obvious stuff. I'd like to see the contracts cancelled and the investigations re-opened.

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (4 children)

One good thing to come out of this is if trump cancels Musk's new billions in government contracts that were the main reason Musk bought trump in the first place. 🤞

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Oh, that's all over now.

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

He has one of those faces you can bisect vertically and flip from each side to make two completely different faces.

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Dang, I had put my money on rich daddy donor. (edit: that could still be right...)

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

And by gaslighting the kids, they're teaching them not to trust their own ability to reason, crushing their critical thinking skills. It sets them up to submit to authoritarianism and go along with obvious lies instead of trusting their own senses and questioning authority.

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I sincerely hope that was a joke...

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 35 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

This is bizarre. The info provided in the question was that Marty ate more than Luis, the question was how would that be possible given that Marty ate 4/6 of his while Luis ate 5/6 of his. The answer the kid wrote (Marty's pizza was bigger than Luis') is the only possible correct answer.

The grader is asserting that the information given in the question was wrong and that "actually it was Luis who ate more pizza"--even though it stated as a premise that "Marty ate more". How are you supposed to give a correct answer on a test if you are expected to accept one premise (proportion of pizzas eaten) while disregarding another premise (Marty ate more than Luis)? How do you decide which part to disregard? Would they have accepted the answer, "Luis actually only ate 3/6 of his pizza, not 5/6)"? Wouldn't that be just as valid an answer as "Marty actually didn't eat more than Luis"?

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

There are so many options. If you're looking for a free and open source wiki-style setup, a couple I haven't seen mentioned in the thread yet are Zim Desktop Wiki and Feather wiki (hmm looks like their web certificate is expired at the moment)

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

In my case it's not so much schadenfreude as just wanting this nightmare era to end as quickly as possible. The sooner this LLM shit dies the sooner we can start to recover and move on, in terms of stopping the senseless waste of water and energy and maybe starting to rebuild some kind of useful internet.

 

If AI is going to scrape content I post or emails I send to people who use gmail, etc. I would like to include a few sentences in each item that will fuck with any AI training they get used by.

(I especially want to stick it in any emails that google will have access to because certain people I want to communicate with refuse to use anything but gmail, even for conversations just with me, after I've specifically asked them to. 😠 )

So I've searched and found many online "nonsense generators" but they use AI to generate silly sentences for you. That's not what I want.

What I want is something that generates grammatically incorrect entences, sentences with words that would never follow each other, and whatever kinds of sentences would cause AI training methods to learn wrong and meaningless patterns of language, so that when it generates stuff based on that it will be obvious crap that is useless for any purpose.

I figure someone has created this by now. Does anyone know where to find something I can use for this?

 

I'm glad to see Canada taking a strong stance, especially the direct action against Musk with the Starlink contract. Mexico is also standing strong and Trump has already backed off of them for now. BTW ever notice how the closer friends the countries are with us, the worse he treats them?

 

I came across this video yesterday that I really liked, kind of a mini-documentary about people who've stuck with flip phones this whole time, never made the switch. I'm one of them.

I like technology, but every time I think about getting a smartphone, it does not spark joy. I feel much happier when I look at flip/feature phones (currently using a Coolpad Snap flip phone and thinking about pulling the trigger on a Sunbeam F1).

Watching this video has strengthened my resolve to avoid using a smartphone for as long as I can get away with it. Do you identify with any of the people in the video?

 

In spite of everything that's happened, the United States still has three branches of government:

  1. The Oligarchs
  2. The Christian Nationalists
  3. Their Enablers
 

New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.

archive.org link

 

(This is a gift link)

There was particular glee in Trump’s takedown of Vice President Kamala Harris, whose gender and multiracial heritage were relentlessly attacked in the “manosphere,” a loose network of misogynistic communities with influence through gaming, social media and other cultural forces.

A network poll shows that 49 percent of men 18 to 29 voted for Trump; the number was 53 percent for men ages 30 to 39, an increase over 2020 results in both categories.

“Gender is the story of this election in a lot of ways,” Miller-Idriss said.

Christian supremacists urged followers to drop to their knees in prayerful gratitude for the defeat of the “Demon-crats” and for the victory of a man they say will usher in “Bible-based governance.”

 

Per anti-vax conspiracy theorist RFK, Jr., Trump promised him control of our public Health agencies in deal for him to drop out and endorse Trump.

 

We are here.

(written in 2003) Studying the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia), and Pinochet (Chile), Dr. Britt found they all had 14 elements in common. He calls these the identifying characteristics of fascism.

 

The suit alleges the mandate violates the Oklahoma Constitution because it involves spending public money to support religion and favors one religion over another by requiring the use of a Protestant version of the Bible. It also alleges Walters and the state Board of Education don’t have the authority to require the use of instructional materials.

“As parents, my husband and I have sole responsibility to decide how and when our children learn about the Bible and religious teachings,” plaintiff Erika Wright, the founder of the Oklahoma Rural Schools Coalition and parent of two school-aged children, said in a statement. “It is not the role of any politician or public school official to intervene in these personal matters.”

 

It's a cult. If that link doesn't work for you, here's a gift link to the article.

 

Keep watching to the end for what you can do about it.

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